Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-04-26
DRUNK, But NOT STAGGERING.


A No Legged Man ON . Spree In New
York City-Hard to Handle.
A queer fragment of a man, the largest
of three pieces raked out of the wreck Of
a freight train on a Jersey railroad, il
sometimes seen making slow progress
along one Of the east side n The
legs of him are buried somewhere in
Jersey, having been cut of above the
knees. and he uses his hands for feet and
his arms for legs, raising himself from
the ground ON both hands and swinging
upon his stumps. He says he was in the
army, and that his legs were shot away
by a rebel cannon ball at Gettysburg.
One of these days he expects to get a
pension. The saloon keepers in his
ncighborhood all know him, and they
would rather give him a drink than hear
him describe the hattie of Gettysburg,
with his own heroism in keeping mp fire
with Lis musket after he lost his legs.
There being so little of him to absorb the
alcohol, he sometimes gets pretty drunk
OH n few drinks. But he cant staggcr,
and he has no use for lamp posts. There
is no 'reeling, rolling home, boys in
his. When he feels 50 good that lac must
whoop 'er up he just yells.
The last lime he got on a spree he
planted himself OH a ornc and howled
until he woke up all the policemen in
the precinct. They thought Buffalo
Bills Indians had dug up Steele Mack.
ayes property Ratchet that was solcmnly
buried in the middle of a circus ring and
started a wal dance When three police
men reached the scene Of rcvclry the
man without any legs was waving his
arms wildly and daring the whole world
- come on. About twenty people were
grouped around him, and. as there We're
no lui~r bricks or other missiles within
reach. nobcly was afraid. lie shouted,
sang. lciipl the universe and when he
was not waving his fists above his head
he put his hands upon the ground and
bumped himself up and down cnerget-
ically. He called that dancing. Once
in a while he would charge on the crowd
with Il whoop. swinging himself along
rapidly, and heap insults and sarcasm
upon the people who dodgel cut of his
way. Although he was only about two
thirds of a man. h. made more noise
than three whole men.
Two Of the officers tried To persuade
him In 90 home. hut h. stood upon his
rights rs a citizen. and his stmnps rs
fragments Of humanity, and refused To
bulge. Then they took him lT the col
lar, and he wound his arms aluu. their
knees and laid them spriwling upon the
sidewalk. With n hand spon the ground
on each oideof one of the prustratc police
mon III" lcglcss roisterer huiStcl himself
aS high aS he could and let himsulf drop
ON the Policeman back like Il pile driver.
cXpslling a roar from him and amusing
the crowd. The three policemen tried
several ways Of Juggling the abbreviated
inebriate, and finally adopted a whccliar-
row. He stood in the vehicle ami bel
lowed all the way 70 the station. and in
the morning he explained that lac acted
that way because he couldn't get any sat
isfactiOn u of Il spree otherwise. II he
only had some legs to stagger with, he
would le as quiet and Ieaccable as a
drunken dude. but if "A man couldn't
stagger and go see saving all oror a side
walk he must work oil the liquor some
I other way.-New York Cor. Chicago Her
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